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Chair Andrea Lucas is returning the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission back to its early civil rights movement roots.

On Monday, we will celebrate the life and work of one of the most well-known and influential leaders of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of a group of leaders of the ...

A traveling exhibit celebrating civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. brings national history back to its local roots.

Dozens of NYU students and faculty convened last week for a hands-on lecture and discussion series about civil rights and ...

A number of entertainers and athletes have used their influence to fight inequality and support the civil rights movements ...

It is impossible to overlook the pivotal role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played not only as the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement but also as its strategic and political architect. While his ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at age 13 ...

Sixty years ago this week, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom indelibly etched the civil rights movement into our nation’s collective memory through the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

A few nights ago I was reading a history of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s a history that I know well but I found myself in tears. The values that advocates for African-Americans have fought for are ...

PAULA NEWTON, INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And now, to the Black Power movement and the year that redefined America’s fight for civil rights. In 1966, journalist and critically acclaimed author Mark ...